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Definition of Forebode
1. Verb. Make a prediction about; tell in advance. "Call the outcome of an election"
Specialized synonyms: Read, Outguess, Second-guess, Augur, Bet, Wager, Calculate, Forecast, Prophesy, Vaticinate
Generic synonyms: Guess, Hazard, Pretend, Venture
Derivative terms: Anticipatory, Foreboding, Foreboding, Foretelling, Prediction, Predictive, Predictor, Prognosis, Prognostication, Prognostication, Prognosticative, Prognosticator
Definition of Forebode
1. v. t. To foretell.
2. v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur.
3. n. Prognostication; presage.
Definition of Forebode
1. Verb. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device). ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) prognostication; presage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forebode
1. to indicate in advance [v -BODED, -BODING, -BODES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forebode
Literary usage of Forebode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"... cutaneous eruption or efflorescence, which has suddenly dis appeared, or
whether there are such symptoms as forebode an erup. t.on ;^-or whether, again, ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"forebode is compounded of fore and the Saxon bodian, to declare, signifying to
... Augur signifies either to serve or make use of as an augury; to forebode, ..."
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